Sweden charge climate activist Greta Thunberg with disobeying police: Report
AFP on 6 July. Thunberg was charged post she refused to obey police orders to leave the site of a protest in the southern city of Malmo on 19 June, said the prosecutor.
The climate activist joined the protest, organized by the environmental activist group 'Ta tillbaka framtiden' (Reclaim the Future) to protest the use of fossil fuel, as they attempted to block the entrance and exit to the Malmo harbor. ALSO READ: Greta Thunberg detained by Norway police during protest "We choose to not be bystanders, and instead physically stop the fossil fuel infrastructure.
We are reclaiming the future," Thunberg said in an Instagram post at the time. "After blocking the activities that are burning our future, we are now being charged with criminal offenses.
While charges are being brought against us, the real crime is going on inside the doors we have blocked," the group said on Wednesday. Providing more details, prosecutor Charlotte Ottesen told the Sydsvenskan newspaper that the charge can at most lead to a six-month jail sentence or fine.
The newspaper reported that a hearing at the Malmo district court has been scheduled for the end of July. With agency inputs.
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